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Kelly graduated from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2014 with an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults and spent five years interning for literary agents, such as for Susan Hawk first at the Bent Agency then at Upstart Crow Literary Agency. She has also worked as an independent developmental editor and a writing mentor, speaking on writing craft and leading writing workshops. She was an editorial reader for Hunger Mountain Literary Magazine’s Katherine Paterson Prize, for which her YA story Match Point was a finalist.<\/p>\n

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